By Le Figaro with AFP
Published yesterday at 9:54 p.m., Updated yesterday at 10:05 p.m.
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This agreement signed in 2015 has long been considered essential to stabilize the country.
The ruling junta in Mali announced Thursday evening the “end, with immediate effect”of the important Algiers agreement signed in 2015 with independence groups in the north of the country, long considered essential to stabilize the country.
I called her together “the change in posture of certain signatory groups”but also “the acts of hostility and exploitation of the agreement on the part of the Algerian authorities, whose country is the leader of the mediation”indicates a press release read on state television by Colonel Abdoulaye Maïga, spokesperson for the government installed by the military.
“Direct inter-Malian dialogue”
The agreement was already considered moribund since the resumption in 2023 of hostilities against the central state and the Malian army by predominantly Tuareg independence groups from the north in the wake of the withdrawal of the United Nations mission (Minusma), pushed towards the exit by the junta after ten years of presence.
The agreement received a very serious additional blow at the very beginning of the year when the head of the junta, Colonel Assimi Goïta, announced during his New Year’s greetings the establishment of a “direct inter-Malian dialogue” pour “prioritize national ownership of the peace process”. The government “notes the absolute inapplicability of the Agreement for Peace and Reconciliation in Mali resulting from the Algiers process, signed in 2015, and, therefore, announces its end, with immediate effect”said the press release read Thursday evening.
